Another Big Day In London

We walked through the grounds of Crystal Palace to catch the train to Victoria, once again another lovely hot day.

As soon as we were on the train Bombo was asleep on the cool floor ...

We were heading towards Paddo basin, but firstly we had to find a phone shop as Elaine's old smartphone was no longer smart and had self destructed.  There was a carphone shop right outside Paddo basin.  As soon as we entered the shop we were very quickly chucked out because we had dogs with us!  We can take them on all the public transport into a lot of pubs etc but not a carphone shop.  My take on it is that they employ a lot of Muslims (I have no problem with that) and Muslims are not renowned as dog lovers.  I told the chap we are just about to spend a few hundred quid on a new phone, didn't matter 'get out'! 

We met up with the Ray and Leonie from Firefly NZ, who are moored up in the basin.

There was loads of weed in the basin, when we were there last year there was none.

A couple of coots or moorhens (I can never remember which is which) were swimming around with their young uns ...

Elaine took this pic of them behind a barge.  Of more interest is on the back of the barge he had a generator running, not for too long mind, but what a noisy stinking old air cooled genny it was!  How could he have such a huge boat without a below deck genny. It was the noisiest genny I have ever heard, and moored up behind a hospital ...

Sammie gave Leonie the 'hello stranger' greeting ...

We had a few beers with them, then it was off to the next appointment ...

Goodbye Paddo, see you again one day ...

We caught the bus to Trafalgar square as we didn't want to take the dogs on the tube in rush hour.  It gets a bit hot and cramped, and people tend not to like smelly dog breath on them.  

We passed this Patriotic chap on the way, I think he was Chinese! 

We were meeting Elaine's old friends by the big blue cock at Trafalgar Square ... we weren't really we were meeting them outside St Martin in the Field but big blue cock has a better ring to it ...

We met up with Pam and Ken and popped into a gay bar that was close by for a quick drink but they didn't serve food so we ended up in a nice dog friendly bar at Covent Garden and had a late dinner.  Great to see youz guys ...

We caught the bus back to Crystal Palace from Whitehall, with Big Ben in the background ...

A quick selfie on the bus, Bombo was sleeping ...

Here is our mooring at Crystal Palace.  The site is full but as it is a caravan club site there is loads of room between the vans. It is a great spot for seeing London ...

We will leave London today to head towards Milton Keynes and pick up my mum then have a few days with my family.

Breaking News........Brother Russ has come to the rescue and has a spare as new Galaxy S2 phone we can have!  Up yours Carphone Warehouse!